bastion 0.4.3

Fault-tolerant Runtime for Rust applications
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Bastion: Fault-tolerant Runtime for Rust applications

Bastion is a highly-available, fault-tolerant runtime system with dynamic dispatch oriented lightweight process model. It supplies actor model like concurrency with primitives called lightproc and utilize all the system resources efficiently with at-most-once message delivery guarantee.

To have a quick start please head to: Bastion System Documentation.

Features

  • Message-based communication makes this project a lean mesh of actor system.
  • Without web servers, weird shenanigans, forced trait implementations, and static dispatch.
  • Runtime fault-tolerance makes it a good candidate for distributed systems.
  • If you want the smell of Erlang and the powerful aspects of Rust. That's it!
  • Completely asynchronous runtime with NUMA-aware and cache-affine SMP executor.
  • Exploiting hardware locality wherever it is possible. It is designed for servers.
  • Supervision system makes it easy to manage lifecycles.
  • Kill your application in certain condition or restart you subprocesses whenever a certain condition is met.
  • Automatic member discovery, cluster formation and custom message passing between cluster members.
  • Using zeroconf or not, launch your bastion cluster from everywhere, with a single actor block.
  • Proactive IO system which doesn't depend on anything other than futures.
  • Bastion's proactive IO has scatter/gather operations, io_uring support and much more...

Guarantees

  • At most once delivery for all the messages.
  • Completely asynchronous system design.
  • Asynchronous program boundaries with fort.
  • Dynamic supervision of supervisors (adding a subtree later during the execution)
  • Lifecycle management both at futures and lightproc layers.
  • Faster middleware development.
  • Above all "fault-tolerance".

Why Bastion?

If one of the questions below is answered with yes, then Bastion is just for you:

  • Do I want proactive IO?
  • Do I need fault-tolerance in my project?
  • Do I need to write resilient middleware/s?
  • I shouldn't need a webserver to run an actor system, right?
  • Do I want to make my existing code unbreakable?
  • Do I need an executor which is using system resources efficiently?
  • Do I have some trust issues with orchestration systems?
  • Do I want to implement my own application lifecycle?